NONPARAMETRIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nonparametric mean? 

• NONPARAMETRIC (adjective)
  The adjective NONPARAMETRIC has 1 sense:

1. not involving an estimation of the parameters of a statistic

  Familiarity information: NONPARAMETRIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NONPARAMETRIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not involving an estimation of the parameters of a statistic

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

Pertainym:

nonparametric statistic (a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn)

 Context examples 

A nonparametric test for finding if three or more independent samples come from populations having the same distribution.

(Kruskal-Wallis Test, NCI Thesaurus)

In statistical inference procedures (hypothesis tests and confidence intervals), nonparametric procedures are those that are relatively free of assumptions about population parameters.

(Non-Parametric Test, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a nonparametric version of ANOVA.

(Kruskal-Wallis Test, NCI Thesaurus)